I'm going through some of our old hardware, and finding dead drives and fun stuff, then I stumbled upon this 1 GB drive... Is there any use for this? It's not possible for me to strip Windows XP down enough to run on this and use internet is it?

I'm going through some of our old hardware, and finding dead drives and fun stuff, then I stumbled upon this 1 GB drive... Is there any use for this? It's not possible for me to strip Windows XP down enough to run on this and use internet is it?

1Gb IDE drive? Sure - the best use I have found for them is to disassemble the drive and remove the magnets from the inside. They are POWERFUL. Great for the fridge (I'm totally serious).

USB drive? Create a bart-PE or Ultimate Boot CD iso and use the included utility to copy it to the USB drive. Useful.

I'm going through some of our old hardware, and finding dead drives and fun stuff, then I stumbled upon this 1 GB drive... Is there any use for this? It's not possible for me to strip Windows XP down enough to run on this and use internet is it?

1Gb IDE drive? Sure - the best use I have found for them is to disassemble the drive and remove the magnets from the inside. They are POWERFUL. Great for the fridge (I'm totally serious).

USB drive? Create a bart-PE or Ultimate Boot CD iso and use the included utility to copy it to the USB drive. Useful.

I like the magnet idea, you should start collecting those magnet. Maybe one day you will get enough to make planes crash in your yard or make the earth spin the opposite direction (that will, or course, cause time to go backwards according to superman)

Somewhere here in my office I have my original 20mb HDD from my first IBM XT. Old style MFM connections, most of you will not remembering having to use DEBUG to low level format a HDD. It sits on my desk as an old reminder of simpler times.